Esher are 20 points off leaders Ealing Trailfinders and, although they have five games remaining compared with Ealing’s four, with only the top team going up, Smith has called time on any promotion hopes.

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He said: “Promotion’s gone, we know that.

“But it would probably be too early to go straight back up because we are not ready as a team or a club.”

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